Palm decided to go its own way, diverging from the owner of the PalmOS, Access, which is also working on a Linux core successor to PalmOS. And thus, we come full circle, for when Palm and PalmSource (since bought by the Japanese company Access) divorced, the justification for splitting was the market wanted it. Well, that surely has not proven to be the case, as demonstrated by Palm's purchase of rights to Garnet, followed by Palm's decision to code its own next-gen PalmOS II instead of using the Access pending Linux-based PalmOS.